Kara

26th Oct 2004

Spaced (1999)

Gatherings - S1-E2

Trivia: When Mike arrives at the house warming party there are 2 young girls at the door asking where the party is, the one with the dark hair is Simon Pegg's (Tim) little sister Katie.

Kara

3rd Oct 2004

Spaced (1999)

Change - S2-E2

Trivia: After Tim goes back to work for Bilbo, as they are walking down the street doing the 'happy dance' Tim picks up a woman and spins her round. This is Simon Pegg's (Tim) mum.

Kara

3rd Oct 2004

Spaced (1999)

Ends - S1-E7

Trivia: Tim and Daisy are discussing porn while dancing to a band playing on stage. The band is actually fronted by Simon Pegg's (Tim) dad.

Kara

30th Jun 2004

Shrek 2 (2004)

Trivia: At the very beginning of the Honeymoon montage, we see Shrek looking directly into the camera and moving it around to get a good shot of him and Fiona in front of the house. The is exactly the same as the opening credits for the late 1980s TV program "The Wonder Years" (1987).

Kara

Trivia: On the bonus DVD deleted scenes segment, there an improvised scene where Jack is trying to remember the word 'Parlay' and goes on to talk about the French. He says at one point 'they're great singers'. Johnny Depp's girlfriend at the time was the French singer Vanessa Paradis.

Kara

Touched - S7-E20

Trivia: When Buffy asks Spike to stay he agrees and says 'the infernal torture device, the comfy chair'. This is a reference to one of the Monty Python 'Spanish Inquisition' sketches.

Kara

Trivia: When everyone is marching on Washington near the end, have a look at Emmet. According to the DVD commentary, the filmmakers forgot that he had to be part of the march, so they had to add him digitally in post production.

Kara

6th Nov 2003

Finding Nemo (2003)

Trivia: Stay past the credits and you will see the vicious Angler fish get eaten by the tiny little fish that ran away from the shark meeting. (01:39:35)

Kara

21st Oct 2003

Family Guy (1999)

Fifteen Minutes of Shame - S2-E12

Trivia: When all the family have been replaced by actors in this episode, the actors are re-enacting the very first episode of Family Guy where Peter gets drunk and the family are eating their breakfast while Peter is lying on the table.

Kara

29th Sep 2003

Pleasantville (1998)

Trivia: The film was filmed entirely in color and had the color removed from the black and white portions in post-production.

Kara

13th Sep 2003

Friends (1994)

8th Sep 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Tree House of Horror VI - S7-E6

Trivia: In the story where Homer get transported to the 3rd dimension there is a string of hexadecimal numbers floating in space. The string reads: %46%72%69%6E%6B%20%72%75%6C%65%73%21. If you paste these into your browser address bar you can see that these convert to say 'Frink rules!'

Kara

8th Sep 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Trivia: The Simpsons holds the record for most guest stars; it is also the only non-variety show to have had appearances from three former Beatles (Paul, George and Ringo).

Kara

8th Sep 2003

The Simpsons (1989)

Trivia: The baby that Celie delivers in the beginning of the film is actually a rubber doll. They covered it in dry ice in order to make it steam.

Kara

Trivia: The cry of the baby Celie gives birth to at the beginning of the film is actually that of the (then) newborn son of director Steven Spielberg.

Kara

31st Aug 2003

The Color Purple (1985)

Trivia: The character of Sofia is played by Oprah Winfrey. Sofia marries Harpo, as well as the fact that 'Harpo' is 'Oprah' reversed, 'Harpo' is also the name of Oprah Winfrey's production company.

Kara

31st Aug 2003

Hard Day's Night (1964)

Trivia: A lot of the casting for the children in the film was done by Phil Colins's mum, this lead to him being given a cameo. If you look in the audience in the final performance, to the right of the handcuffed Shake, you can see the young Phil.

Kara

31st Aug 2003

Hard Day's Night (1964)

Trivia: Throughout the film people keep referring to Paul's granddad as a 'very clean man'. This is a reference to the programme 'Steptoe and Son' which Wilfred Bramble starred in. Through the entire run of the series he was constantly referred to by his son as 'You dirty old man'.

Kara

27th Aug 2003

Hard Day's Night (1964)

Trivia: Just before the Beatles escape down the fire exit you can hear Norm say 'And you'll stay in this room even if I have to put the lock in the key and turn it.'

Kara

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